Cotton Mather
person
12 mentions
8 recordings
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5d ago
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Cotton Mather's father and former Harvard president
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Peak in the day, 24 Sep — 4 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentUnknownA Short History of the United States · Witch of Salem-John R. Musick · 9:01:47 · 5d ago
…cotton mather who was thoroughly imbued with a delusion to cover his confusion got up a case of witchcraft in his own parish he averred the miracles were wrought in boston cotton mather does not seem to have been bloodthirsty though he was more anxious to protect his vanity than his parishioners…
UnknownA Short History of the United States · Witch of Salem-John R. Musick · 8:02:50 · 5d ago
…If the reader wants a fuller account of the trials of Bishop, Martin, or any of the unfortunates who suffered death at Salem during the reign of superstition, we refer them to the collections of Cotton Mather in his Invisible World.…
UnknownA Short History of the United States · Witch of Salem-John R. Musick · 5:59:09 · 5d ago
…Cotton Mather said, New England being a country whose interests are remarkably enwrapped in ecclesiastical circumstances, ministers ought to concern themselves in politics.…
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